The Place for No Story (Masterplots II: Poetry, Revised Edition)
At a glance:
- Author: Robinson Jeffers
- First Published: 1932
- Type of Work: Lyric meditation
- Genres: Poetry, Lyric poetry, Meditation
- Subjects: Culture, North America or North Americans, United States or Americans, Nature, Social life, California, West, U.S., Spiritual life or spirituality, Gods or goddesses, Sea or seafaring life, Loneliness, Birds, Beaches or seashores, Ocean, Paganism, Rocks, Pastures
The Poem
“The Place for No Story” is a short free-verse lyric of twelve lines varying in length from ten to two words. Despite its brevity, the poem is one of Robinson Jeffers’s most important, expressing succinctly and in concentrated form a major theme of his poetry: the supremacy of unconscious nature over the human social worlds of culture and civilization. In this poem, Jeffers returns to the majestic coastal California landscape of his long narrative poems but without the tragic passions of their human characters. That is the significance of the poem’s title; in...
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